Here's a good article about the ways that many spyware, virus, trojan horse, &c programs take advantage of Windows' startup sequence.

An open letter to the entertainment industry, from the computer industry: ...We saw that you were old and weak. So we took advantage of it: told you things that you wanted to hear so we could kick you in the head in twenty years. Some of us told you that the future is going to be interactive - what did you do? You started to think how to make interactive movies (CD-I, anyone?), which is not what it really means, while we wrote games and tried to understand the new mediums, not how to bolt it on onto old things.

Via BoingBoing

Mon Amour - Video, Quicktime

Heh. If you've ever wondered what Metafilter Matt's condom preferences are, look no further. I'm not trying to be a dick, I just thought it was funny. And good for him for being so open. And no, I wasn't intentionally making a pun about two sentences ago.